LOCAL NEWS
"This Old House" gives new life to a foreclosed Roxbury homeIn the sharp chill of a December morning, Lanita Tolentino, 30, joked around with workers in the front yard of a major renovation project on Roxbury's Woodbine Street. For months, she had monitored the progress, watching the siding put on, the new roof shingled, a front porch emerge. More » |
Massachusetts public schools push for longer daysMassachusetts is renewing its push to lengthen the school day, by adding more charter schools and appealing for federal grant money. More » |
Senate candidates clash in second-to-last debateSPRINGFIELD, Mass. - Democrat Martha Coakley and Republican Scott Brown used their sharpest terms yet as the two Massachusetts politicians clashed last Friday in the second-to-last debate of the campaign to succeed the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. More » |
